About the Authors

Simon Chengo Masha

schengo@kemri-wellcome.org

Affiliations Centre for Geographic Medicine Research–Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Kilifi, Kenya, Laboratory Bacteriology Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Pwani University, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Kilifi, Kenya

Elizabeth Wahome

Affiliation Centre for Geographic Medicine Research–Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Kilifi, Kenya

Mario Vaneechoutte

Affiliation Laboratory Bacteriology Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Piet Cools

Affiliation Laboratory Bacteriology Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Tania Crucitti

Affiliation HIV/STI Reference Laboratory, Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Eduard J. Sanders

Affiliations Centre for Geographic Medicine Research–Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Kilifi, Kenya, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Headington, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SCM MV EJS. Data curation: SCM EW. Formal analysis: SCM EW. Funding acquisition: SCM MV EJS. Investigation: SCM. Project administration: SCM EJS. Supervision: SCM EJS. Validation: SCM. Visualization: SCM EW. Writing – original draft: SCM. Writing – review & editing: SCM EW MV PC TC EJS.